On this day in history...

1777 - British forces win a tactically expensive victory over the Continental Army in the 1st Battle of Saratoga in the American Revolution.

1778 - The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States of America.

1796 - George Washington's farewell address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.

1862 - The Battle of Iuka  - Union troops under General William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force commanded by General Sterling Price.

1863 - The two day Battle of Chickamauga begins.  The battle was the most significant Union defeat in the Western Theater of the American Civil War and involved the second highest number of casualties in the war following the Battle of Gettysburg.

1881 - President James Garfield dies of his wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.

1957 - First American underground nuclear bomb test.

 

On this day in history...

1793 - The first cornerstone of the Capital building is laid by George Washington.

1850 - The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.

1943 - Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.

1945 - General Douglas MacArthur moves his command headquarters to Tokyo.

1947 - The United States Air Force becomes an independent branch of the Untied States armed forces.

1947 - The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency were established in the United States under the National Security Act.